Although Bezos was“ generosity is commendable, but it must be the company's first eco-friendly, wrote the group of Amazon employees for climate justice on Monday evening (local time) on Twitter published opinion.

"what time is Amazon will stop to help Oil and gas companies for the destruction of the earth with even more Oil and Gasbohrlöchern?", the staff further asked. Amazon needs to stop financing climate change, think in terms of think tanks, and it had to switch its Trucks from Diesel to electric motors. In addition, they demand from the company's founder, according to a ranking of the "Forbes"magazine, the richest man in the world, a pioneering role in climate protection. "As history teaches us, rise true Visionary against established systems, even when they themselves are expensive," says the employee.

Jeff Bezos is considered to be the richest man in the world

Previously, Bezos had announced his donation on Monday on Instagram. "Climate change is the greatest threat to our planet," said Amazon chief there. He reasons, therefore, the "Bezos Earth Fund", with the scientists, activists and non-governmental organizations in the fight against climate change, supported financially should be. First, funds should flow from the summer.

Amazon was enthusiastic about the plans of the business leaders. "Jeff's passion and his extraordinary personal contribution to the fight against climate change will have enormous impacts," the company said on Monday. Amazon have done with his announcement last September, the objectives of the Paris climate agreement ten years earlier, to implement and to want to 2040 carbon neutral, a bold step.

assets Bezos is on nearly 130 billion US Dollar appreciated

In the past fiscal year 2019, the U.S. online retailer, made a profit of $ 11.6 billion. Worldwide, Amazon has according to its own figures, almost 800 000 employees. Well 350 of them had already been criticised in the end of January, the CO2 balance of your employer, such as the Amazon staff for climate justice, said on Twitter.

The assets of Bezos is estimated to be in "Forbes" on nearly 130 billion US dollars. He has been criticized in the past, that he measured his wealth, comparatively little money donation. In the past few years, he had expanded his donations, however. Only a few days ago, Bezos made headlines had made with the purchase of a luxury estate in Beverly Hills for 165 million US dollars. In the PCP In the

rob/dpa-AFX Date Of Update: 19 February 2020, 12:00